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Opera Now captures the drama, colour and vitality of one of the most powerful of all the performing arts, showcasing the creative spirit of opera both on stage and behind the scenes. In addition, our 32-year magazine archive is now available to subscribers to our ‘digital’ and ‘print & digital’ packages, allowing you to explore more than 270 issues of opera history.

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How travel broadens the operatic mind

READERS’ LETTERS

NEWS & NOTES

Met announces summer of opera in cinemas

Grimeborn celebrates 15 years at the operatic fringe

NEXT ISSUE AUGUST 2022

Booming, busting and bouncing back

Luiz Fernando Malheiro: a steady hand at the helm of the Festival Amazonas

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A woman of the world • Possessor of one of the most beautiful mezzo soprano voices of her generation, Elina Garanča revels in the morally conflicted and emotionally complex femmes fatales who have become the mainstay of her career in opera. It’s just as well she draws a firm line between her life and her art…

Teresa Berganza (1933-2022)

The Greatest Tenors • Their music, their lives and their legacies

A new golden age • Hungary’s national opera house, the State Theatre, has emerged resplendent after five years of restoration and renovation, carefully balancing tradition and innovation to create a superb performing space that celebrates one of Europe’s most distinguished musical cultures

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Home andaway • Launched just 12 years ago, Northern Ireland Opera is the UK’s youngest national company and still forging a sense of its own identity at a time of upheaval on so many fronts. With Australian director Cameron Menzies now at the helm, there’s a new dynamism afoot…

Samson et Dalila

La Fenice, Venice

Platée

Fidelio

Lohengrin

La traviata

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Ostrava

Anna Bolena

Fringe Opera in England

New releases

Tristan und Isolde

Spotlight July – August 2022 • Production Highlights • World Premieres • Exceptional Casts

The Opera Now Quiz • Do you know your Puccini from your Ponchielli? Test your wits in this month’s set of fiendish questions for the dedicated opera buff (with a clue or two in the pictures)

STEPHEN LAWLESS • Born in Warrington, England, Stephen Lawless has achieved international acclaim as one of Britain’s most accomplished and prolific opera directors. He was director of productions at Glyndebourne from 1986 to 1991, where his production of Britten’s Death in Venice won him huge critical acclaim. He has since worked extensively in Europe and the US in a wide range of repertoire. His career was launched when he revived Andrei Tarkovsky’s staging of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Kirov Opera, the first opera televised by the BBC from the Soviet Union